A large Republican donor was found to have provided $50 million in political funds to the Trump camp the day after former President Donald Trump was found guilty on charges related to paying hush money for a sexual scandal.
According to American media outlets, including the New York Times (NYT) on the 23rd, Timothy Mellon (81) joined MAGA (Make America Great Again), a Super PAC (political fund-raising organization) that supports former President Trump, on the 31st of last month. ) donated $50 million to May 31st is the day after former President Trump was found guilty in a Manhattan court in New York on all 34 criminal charges related to providing hush money for sexual misconduct.
Mellon, the heir to a family of financial assets, has consistently donated large sums of money to the Republican Party and former President Trump’s camp. The NYT introduced that this $50 million would be one of the largest single donations in the history of U.S. political funding.
Super PAC ‘MAGA’, which has acquired a large amount of money, plans to spend $100 million on TV advertisements by Labor Day (September 2). ‘Maga’ had only $34.5 million in cash reserves as of the end of April, but thanks to Melon’s support, it raised about $70 million in May.
Prior to this donation, Mellon, who is known as a ‘reclusive man of wealth’ because he does not appear in public often, had donated $25 million each to former President Trump and independent candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Super PAC this year.
The NYT announced that he became the first donor to exceed $100 million in donations related to this year’s presidential election, including this donation. Before securing the Republican presidential nomination last March, former President Trump was significantly behind his presidential rival, President Joe Biden, in terms of the amount of campaign funds raised, but the gap was almost eliminated as the amount raised increased significantly around the guilty verdict.